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sweet williams
hi everybody!
can anyone give info regards sweet williams? I have a small pot with them growing, can I keep them in this pot? will they flower come flowering time? do they keep growing for a couple of years or is it game over after they flower, I am no expert, you may have guessed! I'd like to keep them in a pot if possible, you guys helped me out when I went mad and dug a bog garden, it's coming along nicely, and so are my visits to my chiropractor!
cheers
dan
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I believe they are biennials dan, putting on growth in the first year and flowering the second. That said I've got one in a tub that seems to have been there for a lot longer. Short-lived perrenials?
Sweet williams are biennial. Young plants planted out now will flower next year.
If they are all crowded in a small pot they will not flower properly. They should really have been planted out in September.
I have read that they are really short-lived perennials, but they're usually grown as biennials. My ones got savaged by something for other, so I'm going to have a crack at sowing some early in spring in case I can coax them into flowering in their first year.
I bought a dozen small plants a couple of months ago and they're doing really well. Some are in pots but not crowded and some are just in the ground between other pots, same with the wallflowers I got much the same time. Also doing well. I like both for their colours and their perfume and while wallflowers always seem easy to come by, the sweet williams not so
I love them...happy little flowers
I'm hoping the ones between the pots will self seed. It's a difficult bit of ground and I'm bunging anything I like which will usually self seed but which is also easy to remove if it gets too much, like Forget-me-no, Wesh poppies, Love in a Mist, violas......
sweet william or biennials supposedly. I planted some out 3 years ago, flowered first time this year. I have some elsewhere as well what have been there years but I am sure they self seed every year.